Jeremiah 18:20

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”

Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;

Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of his sight.

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves.

Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.

Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

“I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,

Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”

Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.

Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh answered him.

Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel was among those who call on his name. They called on Yahweh, and he answered them.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they will not be able to escape; and they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.

As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

Yahweh said to me, “Don’t pray for this people for their good.

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

Therefore Yahweh says, “If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them.

Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

For through Yahweh’s anger this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

You have not gone up into the gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in Yahweh’s day.

He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

But if they are prophets, and if Yahweh’s word is with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the vessels which are left in Yahweh’s house, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,

Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.

“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.

As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.

even the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May Yahweh do so. May Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh’s house, and all those who are captives, from Babylon to this place.

He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.